[Wired] The Warped Astrophysics of the SciFi Epic Interstellar

Kip Thorne looks into the black hole he helped create and thinks, “Why, of course. That’s what it would do.” This particular black hole is a simulation of unprecedented accuracy. It appears to spin at nearly the speed of light, dragging bits of the universe along with it. (That’s gravity for you; relativity is superweird.) In theory it was once a star, but instead of fading or exploding, it collapsed like a failed soufflé into a tiny point of inescapable singularity….